<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 11:56 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg3465859774893887068"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_3465859774893887068WordSection1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…Oh that's easy, because of our criminally idiotic electoral college system….<br></span></b></blockquote><b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b><br><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>Criminally?  The constitution defines criminal. </i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>But the constitution didn't define morality, and it included<span class="gmail_default" style=""></span> the electoral college<span class="gmail_default" style=""> so </span>it certainly didn't embody<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>intelligence.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></font></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg3465859774893887068"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_3465859774893887068WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_3465859774893887068gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>… Donald ran for president 3 times but he never got a majority of the popular votes in <u>ANY</u> of them, and he only got a plurality of the votes once.</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_3465859774893887068gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>OK, so why did the opposition party manage to lose a majority of the states? </font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I'll tell you the answer to that confounding question if you first tell me what Dark Energy and Dark Matter are.  To paraphrase Winston Churchill, all three questions are riddles wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma<span class="gmail_default" style="">.</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>